Northern Plains National Heritage Area Management Plan

The Northern Plains National Heritage Area is one of the 49 federally designated National Heritage Areas in the United States. When establishing the Northern Plains National Heritage Area, Congress identified the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation as the local coordinating entity. The role of the foundation is to coordinate between partners and facilitate efforts to support, coordinate and manage programs within the heritage area.

To support these efforts, the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation has been working on a management plan that will guide our activities for the next five years. This draft management plan articulates where we are and where we are going. It describes our goals, strategies, and recommendations for accomplishing the heritage area's purposes; the actions and commitments that federal, state, tribal, and local governments, private organizations, and citizens could take to respect, enhance, interpret, fund, manage, and develop the heritage area; and it provides a set of policies to guide the work of the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation.

A key part of the planning effort is the opportunity for the public to be involved by reviewing and commenting on the draft plan. To facilitate this, the foundation is hosting a series of public meetings during the 30-day public review period. During the meetings there will be a short presentation on the heritage area and the draft management plan followed by an opportunity for questions and comments. I encourage you to attend one of the meetings to hear more about the draft management plan as well as exiting opportunities for you to be involved in future activities.

Topic Questions:

1. To what extent does the Management Plan support the purpose of the National Heritage area and sufficiently plan for resource protection, enhancement, interpretation, funding, management, and development?

2. To what extent does the Management Plan adequately identify partnerships, financial and other resources necessary to implement the plan and advance the goals of the National Heritage Area? Are there other resources that should be identified but have not?

3. To what extent do the four goals, and the proposed objectives for each goal, support implementation of the Management Plan?

4. What else would you like the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation to know in order to aid them in implementation of a Management Plan for the heritage area?

Document Content:

NOPL Management Plan_18_0125_508_v2.pdf   (8.6 MB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.